Hitler's Rise to Power

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Weimar Republic

German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.

August 2nd 1934

Hindenburg dies

January 30th 1933

Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

20th April 1889

Hitler born

Vienna Academy of Fine Arts

Hitler took the entrance exam twice and failed both times.

High Treason

Hitler was found guilty of this after the failed Munich Putsch

Night of the Long Knives

June 1934

Reichstag Fire

27th February 1933

Dictatorship

A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority.

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler's book

Munich Putsch

November 1923

Anti-Semitism

Prejudice against Jews

Hindenburg

President of Germany who died and was replaced by Hitler

Austria

The country where Adolf Hitler was born

World War One

The one time Hitler felt direction in his life. It was a cause to which he could commit himself totally.

German Workers Party

The original name of the Nazi party

Fuhrer

The title Adolf Hitler gave himself. It means "leader" in German.

1919

The year Hitler joined the German Workers Party

Revolution

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

Enabling Act

enabled Hitler to pass laws without reference to parliament

Anton Drexler

founder of the Nazi Party

Ernst Rohm

head of the "Storm Troopers"; loyal aid to Hitler; killed by Hitler after the Night of the Long Knives

October 29, 1929

stock market crash in NYC

The Great Depression

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

Treaty of Versailles

the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers. It forced Germany to pay reparations, take blame for the war, reduce their army and give up territory.


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